Firearms in video games and what it means for payment processors

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Lying Sack Of Fun 9 Sep @ 1:38pm

As much as I loathe keeping the payment processor topic dragged out, this one is an important question to ask:

Payment processors have a history of recently blocking or at least proposing to block firearm purchases to 'protect their brand image'. It's not a big stretch to say violent games are on the chopping block too.

Games that would likely be taken down are games that:

1: Let you customize guns or build on them in a realistic way. Think of Crysis, Battlefield games, and even gun smithing games.
2: Games with loads of violence Ie: Doom, Ready, Trepang, etc.
3: Games that allow killing of non-combatants. Games like GTA, Saints Row, Modern Warfare 2, Ready Or Not, etc.
4: Games that allow war crimes. Almost all warfare games

How many times have we heard that gaming is causing mass shootings and especially lately when newer/younger generations are shooting people, we can expect older generations to blame gaming (With exceptions).

But many older people already know it's not true but with younger non-gamers throwing their hat in the race, there will likely be enough outcry for another collective shout esque scapegoat. It likely won't stop with these games however, but these are the next lowest hanging fruit.

I highly suggest to people who enjoy these types of games to get them while they're still available because there is a MAJOR chance that they won't be soon. The same applies to mods as well.

I'm curious; What does the community think? Is this a good thing? Bad thing? Or does everyone think it won't happen?

I personally think it's practically inevitable on our current path.

TL:DR

Payment processors will probably ban games with guns and violence based on their history with firearms. What do you think?

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eram 9 Sep @ 1:50pm

Are you older than video games? because we've been shooting things since space war.

Piston Smashed™ 9 Sep @ 1:54pm

Next they'll ban games with more than four letters in a word...

eram 9 Sep @ 1:54pm

Originally posted by Piston Smashed™:
Next they'll ban games with more than four letters in a word...

Valve banned the number 3

dgresevfan 9 Sep @ 1:55pm

See also: Games that let you engage in illegal animal vs animal fighting matches.

i.e. Pokemon.

Other games that involve mass killing even if not involving firearms.

e.g. Final Fantasy or literally any game involving grind-able combat encounters.

Piston Smashed™ 9 Sep @ 1:55pm

Originally posted by eram:
Originally posted by Piston Smashed™:
Next they'll ban games with more than four letters in a word...
Valve banned the number 3

But that's the magic number.

Aluvard 9 Sep @ 2:17pm

0 chance that this will happen.

Lying Sack Of Fun 9 Sep @ 2:24pm

Originally posted by dgresevfan:
See also: Games that let you engage in illegal animal vs animal fighting matches.

i.e. Pokemon.

Other games that involve mass killing even if not involving firearms.

e.g. Final Fantasy or literally any game involving grind-able combat encounters.

I'd agree logically but it's mainly about gore, nudity, and guns. Heck, drugs will probably be censored for sure. Games like schedule 1 or High on life. There isn't a huge outcry against real life animal fighting or anything.

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dgresevfan 10 Sep @ 12:07pm

Originally posted by Lying Sack Of Fun:
Originally posted by dgresevfan:
See also: Games that let you engage in illegal animal vs animal fighting matches.

i.e. Pokemon.

Other games that involve mass killing even if not involving firearms.

e.g. Final Fantasy or literally any game involving grind-able combat encounters.
I'd agree logically but it's mainly about gore, nudity, and guns. Heck, drugs will probably be censored for sure. Games like schedule 1 or High on life. There isn't a huge outcry against real life animal fighting or anything.

I hate to break it to you, but pretty much all pokemon other than Mr Mime are naked.

(Not a Pokemon expert. Might have missed some.)

Thermal Lance 10 Sep @ 12:10pm

I can't wait for this hysteria to die off.

Nx Machina 10 Sep @ 12:20pm

Collective Shout (anti porn group) appeal to payment providers was for specific adult only sexual content and the payment providers complied.

Other adult only sexual content is still available on Steam.

Secondly do you honestly believe Visa and Mastercard are not going to want a slice of the pie for Grand Theft Auto VI estimated to make $3 billion usd in the first year, or the latest Battlefield, Call of Duty etc. Of course they want their slice because it is business.

And finally Rockstar have the money to sue Collective Shout for impeding their business, as do EA and Microsoft.

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Nev Nev 10 Sep @ 12:23pm

It sounds like more Youtube fear mongering and impressionable people doing what humanity does.

Doomsday is round the corner! Buy all your games now, you won't be able to tomorrow! Better watch clickbait Youtube videos where impressionable people are brainwashed into thinking one way or another.

That's not good bruh. Don't do that.

Originally posted by Lying Sack Of Fun:
I'm curious; What does the community think? Is this a good thing? Bad thing? Or does everyone think it won't happen?

Of course it won't happen.

Originally posted by Thermal Lance:
I can't wait for this hysteria to die off.

It never dies off. If it's not one thing, it's another thing. This is a constant repetitive pattern of humanity.

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captainwiseass 10 Sep @ 5:01pm

The people trying to ban games that acknowledge the existence of queer people aren't interested in banning guns or depictions of such. Quite the opposite, in fact.

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Reaper 10 Sep @ 7:12pm

Originally posted by Aluvard:
0 chance that this will happen.

That's what people said about adult games getting delisted from Steam and mandatory user IDs for age verification. Now look where we are

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Ben Lubar 10 Sep @ 11:41pm

The only thing that's in Visa's list of no-no topics that hasn't changed since before Steam allowed adult games on the platform that they haven't already acted on is non-consensual body modification. So basically RimWorld. It's not a long list. It's like five phrases total. If they turn around and demand that RimWorld be removed from the platform, that would be somewhat surprising. Anything beyond that would require them to change their list of rules that they haven't changed for over a decade.

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Lying Sack Of Fun 11 Sep @ 2:27am

Originally posted by Ben Lubar:
The only thing that's in Visa's list of no-no topics that hasn't changed since before Steam allowed adult games on the platform that they haven't already acted on is non-consensual body modification. So basically RimWorld. It's not a long list. It's like five phrases total. If they turn around and demand that RimWorld be removed from the platform, that would be somewhat surprising. Anything beyond that would require them to change their list of rules that they haven't changed for over a decade.

That's reassuring but it can change on a dime and they have a history.

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